Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OGLETHORPE

OGLETHORPE, a hamlet in Bramham township and parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3¼ miles W of Tadcaster. Oglethorpe Hall was the seat of the ancient family of Oglethorpe, who lost their estates in the civil wars of Charles I.; and is now a farm-house.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bramham CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Oglethorpe

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